Advances in Chemical Looping Conversion of Fuels

With growing concerns about limited fossil fuel reserves and global warming, it is imperative to develop clean and sustainable energy conversion technologies. Among these technologies, chemical looping, which decomposes a chemical reaction into several sub-reactions using an oxygen carrier as the intermediate and enables the clean conversion of carbon-containing fuels with inherent CO2 capture, is an environmentally friendly, highly flexible and more efficient strategy in optimizing the conversion process of carbon-containing fuels (coal, biomass, municipal solid waste, methane, etc.) for energy and chemical production.

The aim of this Research Topic is to present and disseminate the most recent advances in the field of chemical looping conversion of carbon-containing fuels. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

• Original results from chemical looping conversion of coal, biomass, methane, solid waste, etc.
• Research and analysis of chemical looping processes for producing syngas and chemicals (e.g., H2/CO syngas, hydrogen, ammonia, C-H chemicals etc.).
• Oxygen carriers research and development.
• Chemical looping process development and optimization.
• Chemical looping reactor design.
• Innovation of chemical looping reaction mechanism.
• CFD modelling of sub-processes and overall process.
• Process simulation and evaluation for chemical looping of solid fuel.
• CO2 conversion

Keywords: chemical looping, fuel, oxygen carrier, mechanism

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